THESE BOOKS THAT CHANGE THE COURSE OF POLITICAL HISTORY. CES LIVRES QUI CHANGENT LE COURS DE L’HISTOIRE POLITIQUE

Can a text change the course of history? Experience tells us that the answer is obviously yes to the extent that historically, books and texts have caused tectonic shifts and left, after publication, the indelible feeling that there was now a "before" and "after" that stood astride the impact of their publication. Such texts can deal with politics, philosophy, governance, sociology, science, etc., but they all have the particularity to generate clear and irreversible breaks with standards prior to their publication. These texts are considered fundamental because they allow in their own way, for a new era to begin. On this blog, we believe that if the investigation of the Watergate scandal, which produced the book "All the President’s Men," fundamentally changed American politics; in Gabon, Pierre Péan's book "Nouvelles Affaires Africaines" is on the verge of achieving something similar. We explain!

When facing power, especially prejudiced power, the first barrier to overcome is that of psychological impotence. The Watergate scandal is a sequence of events revealed by the investigations of two young Washington Post reporters, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who were respectively 28 and 29 years old at the time; which led in 1974 to the resignation of the US President Richard Nixon. The result of these investigations by these two journalists were published in the book, "All the President’s Men" in 1974, were adapted on the silver screen in a movie of the same title that won several Oscars.

The Watergate scandal starts on the night of 17 June 1972, when five burglars are spotted by a security guard (a black American named Frank Wills, then 21 years old) who called the police and had them arrested in the Watergate building which was the headquarters of the Democratic Party. The search of these burglars revealed that they were in possession of listening devices making them look more like secret agents than burglars. On an address books found in their possession, were the coordinates of one Howard Hunt, who was a CIA agent. One of the burglars, James McCord, drew particular attention because the police realized that he was a colonel in the Air Force, a former FBI and CIA agent, and especially a member of the Committee for the Reelection of the President Richard Nixon (then serving his first term and campaigning for a second term). The FBI, despite the incriminating evidence, decided not to pursue the case.

Asked about the fact that some of his collaborators had been linked to this break-in at the headquarters of the opposition party, on the following 22 June, President Richard Nixon spoke for the first time about the matter, saying: "The White House is not involved in any way in this incident." Months passed, and the matter faded away and for the presidential election of November 1972, Richard Nixon won against Democrat George McGovern, the largest landslide victory in the history of the United States.

But the two young Washington Post journalists did not give up the case because they thought that things were being hidden. They conducted their own investigation to unravel a tangled skein, made of espionage, bribery, fraud, forgery and lies, which all led to the White House. As young investigative journalists, they did not hesitate to contact hundreds of people, following tracks that had initially seemed insignificant but became explosive. They were helped by an anonymous informant whose code name was "Deep Throat," and whose identity was not revealed until 30 years later, his name was Mark Felt, and he was the deputy director of the FBI at the time. The truth in this matter was discovered solely due to the tenacity of these two journalists without whom all these frauds by Richard Nixon would have been ignored. Thanks to the revelations of these two journalists, a Senate inquiry was set up and demonstrated that Richard Nixon had committed perjury against the American people when he said that he was in no way involved in this illegal act. Nixon's fate was sealed; he had only resignation as a way out. He resigned on 9 August 1974, one week after the initiation of legal proceedings against him.

In addition to the resignation of Richard Nixon, seven of its collaborators, including three of his closest advisers at the White House, were convicted and sentenced to prison as they were found guilty of criminal conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury.

We, on this blog, believe that the book by Pierre Péan could lead to a similar outcome if the Gabonese people remain mobilized in the search for truth, the whole truth. The French investigative journalist brings together methodically all available elements to demonstrate what imposture Ali Bongo and the system he inherited from his father are. The elements described in the book can be scrutinized and verified at various levels by readers and when that is done, it appears that very little in Ali Bongo’s biography and trajectory has anything to do with the truth.

Reading the book by Pierre Péan allows the Gabonese people to ask whether they must accept to have a President whose acts demonstrate that he is a crook. That he is someone who, to stand in a presidential election, took care to forge a key administrative document such as his birth certificate. As did Americans Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward to demonstrate Nixon’s perjury, the French Pierre Péan shows us in details and methodically, the economic damage caused by the diversion of funds by Ali Bongo and his friends, the falsehoods and forgeries which Ali Bongo has been guilty of over time, the scams and usurpation of diplomas and functions committed by him. Psychological impotence must be overcome and we must be able to impose direct accountability to Ali Bongo and his associates.

The last sycophants who still support the unbearable must be reminded that Richard Nixon was the most powerful man in the world; yet the search for truth by two investigative journalists unbolted him. Ali Bongo is guilty of perjury and various scams against the Gabonese constitution and its people. He cannot continue to remain at the head of the country because no people can accept to be led by a crook.

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